This guide is organized into the following sections:
I. Classic Books
II. Selected Internet Sites (organizations, data, audio, webcams)
III. Selected Journals (current or historic)
IV. Research Literature Indexes, Abstracts, Databases, Bibliographies, or Guides
V. Reference: facts, encyclopedias, dictionaries, or handbooks
VI. Illustrations
VII. Field Guides
VIII. Identification Aids or Keys
IX. Names, Taxonomy, Systematics, or Classification Resources

Related source information can also be found on these other library guides:
Botany Information Resources Ecology and Evolution Geology Biology
Taxonomy and Classification Laboratory Methods Science Biography
Forestry and Environmental Studies Guide(conservation, endangered species)

I. Classic Books
This selection of titles was derived from or checked against several sources: historic renown, Faculty Recommended Reading suggestions, data on use from Kline Science Library. Additional titles and annotations will be added in the future.

The Natural History of Selborne in the County of Southampton by Gilbert White. Oxford University Press, 1977.
Originally published in 1789.
Kline Science Library QH138 S4 W4 1977
Seeley Mudd Library (1830, 1834, 1887, 1899, 1923 eds.) S48 976 or S48 980s, S48 975, S48 980, S48 980r, S48 984
Lewis Walpole (non-circulating) 2 copies 53 W583 813c 2 volumes
Ornithology (non-circulating) QH138 S4 W45 1949
Beinecke (1902 ed.) 1976 2542

Born Free, a lioness of two worlds by Joy Adamson. Pantheon Books, 1960.
Kline Science Library QL 737 C23 A32
Cross Campus Library QL 737 C2 A312

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold. Oxford University Press, 1949.
Kline Science Library QH81 L46 1949 and QH81 L46 1987
Forestry and Environmental Studies Library QH81 L56
Cross Campus Library (1966 and 1987 editions) QH81 L46 1966 and QH81 L46 1987

Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Originally published in 1836 in an edition of 500 copies. Various editions and copies are located at: Sterling Memorial, Cross Campus, and Beinecke libraries.

Walden by Henry David Thoreau.
Originally published in 1854 (2000 copies). Various editions and copies are located at:
Forestry and Environmental Studies, Cross Campus, Sterling Memorial, Beinecke, and Lewis Walpole libraries

Guide to the Study of Fishes by David Starr Jordan. Henry Holt and Co., 1905. 2 volumes
Kline Science Library QL 615 J67 1905
Seeley Mudd Library Sw4 373
The author later became president of Stanford University.

Journal of Researches into the Geological and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by HMS Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, RN from 1832 to 1836 by Charles Darwin.
Originally published in 1839. Darwin's description of the visit to Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, Chile, Peru, and islands in the Pacific.
1852 edition circulates: Kline Science Library QH11 D2 1852
1st edition online, Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online, from University of Cambridge

Field Guide to the Birds by Roger Tory Peterson. Houghton Mifflin, 1934.
Kline Science Library QL 681 P4 1939 and 1947 editions
Ornithology Library QL 681 P4 1959
Peterson's Field Guide to the Birds, in 1934, turned out to be a landmark field guide and an anniversary edition reprint was later published.

In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall. Houghton Mifflin, 1971.
Kline Science and Cross Campus libraries QL 785.5 C5 L38

Cambridge Natural History, edited by S.F. Harmer and A.E. Shipley. Macmillan, 1895-1909. 10 volumes
Kline Science Library QL45 C3 (1895-1909 edition, volumes 3,5,6,7,8,10; 1922 edition, volumes 1-10)
Geology Library QL45 C35 (some volumes)
Seeley Mudd Library SL8 706 (1895-1909 edition, volumes 1,2,4,9)

Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America by Louis Agassiz. Little, Brown and Company, 1857-1862.
4 volumes were completed.
Kline Science Library QL151 +A3
Medical Historical Library 19thCent QL155 +857A

Bulletin of the United States National Museum (1 (1875) - 298 (1971))
Volumes hold articles pertaining to the collections of the Museum, as part of the Smithsonian Institution. Readers will find memorable contributors within these volumes, including Edward D. Cope, Elliott Coues, David Starr Jordan, William Healey Dall, Joseph Harvey Riley, and Richard E. Blackwelder.
Kline Science Library Q11 +U5

Natural History of New York (geology, agriculture, palaeontology, mineralogy)

II. Selected Internet Sites: organizations, data, audio
organizations
Yale University Peabody Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution - research
American Museum of Natural History, located in New York.
Field Museum of Natural History - online exhibits
Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles

data
Christmas Bird Count
Beenome Site, from USDA, ARS Bee Research Lab
The Cephalopod Page, from JB Wood, Bermuda Biological Station for Research
NatureServe Explorer: an online encyclopedia of life

audio
Many bird songs and calls were provided on the Internet by Cornell University's Laboratory of Ornithology. Bird songs or calls may now be heard through a subscribed resource, Birds of North America online. Pictorial video clips are also within this resource.
Other animal calls, songs, or short lectures have also been made available (whales, dolphins, frogs, for example, University of Michigan and Texas A&M University).

webcams
*See also Birds of North America online for video clips of individual bird species.
giant panda, at the National Zoo in Washington DC.
asian elephant, at the National Zoo in Washington DC.
ape, African elephant, panda, polar , Research Station at the San Diego Zoo.
common marmoset Callicam, from the Wisconsin Primate Research Center, University of Wisconsin.

III. Selected Journals (current or historic)
Titles appearing in this section were drawn from several sources, including: Most-Used Biology Journals in Kline Science Library, Journal Citation Reports, Scientific Serials, conversations, and investigations over time. It is a selective list and may be modified from time to time. Underlined titles (also with a *) are accessibly electronically for at least some years to current Yale affiliates.

American Midland Naturalist *
American Museum of Natural History. Bulletin. *
American Naturalist *
Anatomical Record *
Animal Behaviour *
Annals of Natural History
Auk *
Behavioral Ecology *
Biological Bulletin *
Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History: Zoology Series
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology *

Canadian Journal of Zoology * [only partial full-text]
Chelonian Conservation and Biology
Condor *
Copeia *
Developmental and Comparative Immunology *
Ethology Ecology and Evolution
Entomological Society of America. Annals. *
Evolution *

Ibis *
Journal of Animal Ecology *
Journal of Comparative Neurology *
Journal of Comparative Physiology A - sensory, neural and behavioral physiology *
Journal of Comparative Physiology B - biochemical, systemic and environmental physiology *
Journal of Experimental Zoology *
Journal of Mammalogy *
Journal of Morphology *
Journal of Natural History - an international journal of taxonomic and general biology *
Journal of Wildlife Management
Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research *
Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology and Meteorology

Magazine of Natural History
Naturwissenschaften *
Oecologia *
Pacific Coast Avifauna * The older backfile is searchable online through new efforts of University of New Mexico and ornithological group collaborators. Current FES librarian C. Heister through inner workings brought this site up.
Physiological and Biochemical Zoology *
Physiological Zoology *
Reproduction Nutrition Development
Royal Society of London, Philosophical Transactions, B *
Societe de Biologie, Paris. Comptes-Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances/ Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences - Ser. III - Sciences de la Vie *
Systematic Zoology *

Wilhelm Roux' Archiv fur Entwicklungsmechanik der Organismen
Wilson Bulletin: a quarterly magazine of ornithology *
Zeitschrift fur Wissenschaftliche Zoologie
Zoologica Scripta *
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (London) *
Zoologische Jahrbucher, Jena Zoologischer Anzeiger

IV. Research Literature Indexes, Abstracts, Databases, Bibliographies, or Guides
Aquatic Biology, Aquaculture, and Fisheries Abstracts
cd-rom searchable at Kline Science Library.

ARS Bee Bibliography (1905-1973), from USDA, Agricultural Research Service.
Searchable online, with references to periodical articles, books, and pamphlets. Use Agricola for U.S.-based references 1970 to present and CAB Abstracts for agriculture literature references from around the world.

Bibliography of American Natural History, the Pioneer Century, 1769-1865: the role played by the scientific societies, scientific journals, natural history museums and botanic gardens; state geological and natural history surveys, federal exploring expeditions in the rise and progress of American botany, geology, mineralogy, paleontology, and zoology.
By Max Meisel and published in 1924.
Kline Science Library Z7408 U5 M45
Sterling Memorial Library Xq16 U2 924

Bibliographia Zoologiae et Geologiae, a General Catalogue of All Books, Tracts, and Memoirs on Zoology and Geology, by Louis Agassiz.
This 4-volume work provides a listing by author of works from the 17th century through the early 19th century.
Seeley Mudd Library/Kline Collection QL1 Z69

BIOSIS (Biosis Previews)

Dean Bibliography of Fishes
A classic bibliography published in 3 volumes, over the time 1916-1923 and amassed by Dean Bashford of the American Museum of Natural History. Contents of references are grouped into sections including: author listings, anonymous works, pre-Linnaean publications, general bibliographies, voyages and expeditions, and a subject index with morphology and systematic listings. Also issued in 1968 and 1969.
Kline Science Library Z5971 D4

GeoRef
Database for identifying citations for the paleontological and geological literature.

International Catalogue of Scientific Literature
Issued in sections, with "N" covering zoology and consisting of 22 volumes. Subject and systematically-arranged listings are provided.
Published 1901-1914 by the Royal Society of London.
Kline Science Library Z7403 I58

Royal Society Catalogue of Scientific Papers
Covers transaction and journal literature 1800-1863. Arrangement is by author.
Kline Science Library Abstracts

Poole's Index to Periodical Literature
This index, created by a once Yale student, is a good source for literature citations from English-language magazines, 1802-1881 and supplements to 1908.

PrimateLit - a bibliographic database for people interested in primates
Citations date from 1940 to the present on the ecology, biology, taxonomy, and conservation of non-human primates. From the Wisconsin Primate Research Center, University of Wisconsin Libraries, Madison, Wisconsin and the Primate Information Center at Washington National Primate Research Center, Seattle, Washington. The Research Center in Wisconsin also makes available Primate Info Net with a variety of resources including directories and assistance in digitally photographing the common marmoset in captivity (with its Callicam). Recent related announcements are being reviewed.

Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide Formerly a CD-ROM known as Wildlife Worldwide. Now available online. Coverage begins in 1935.

Zoological Record
ZR is the major bibliographic record for the field of natural history and zoology. Publication and coverage began in 1864 and continues to the present. Updated monthly.

V. Facts, Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, or Handbooks
To more closely simulate shelf browsing, the entries in this section are arranged by call number.

Nature Encyclopedia
Oxford University Press, 2001.
6500 entries, some with colored illustration and some biographical, are found in this work with contributions from specialists in the United States or Great Britain. Entries are generally concise and some topics are "featured articles" (photosynthesis, food chain, coral reef, fungus, angiosperms, for example). Sections at end provide: a cross-disciplinary chronology beginning with prehistoric times of 15,000 million years ago and almanac/world's record-like ready reference tables of facts on natural places or phenomena such asmountains, clouds, deserts, waterfalls, oceans, volcanoes, earthquakes, land areas of countries, greenhouse gas emissions, rarest trees, most invasive species, for example. A brief synopsis of different classification system overviews is also found here.
Kline Science Library Reference QH13 +N38 2001 (LC)

The Oryx Guide to Natural History: the earth and all its inhabitants
Oryx Press, 1999.
On the general and popular side.
Kline Science Library Reference QH45.2 +B37X 1999

Encyclopedia of Entomology
An A to Z arrangement of entries is found in this 3-volume set published by Springer. Topics covered include: major taxa of insects, their morphology, physiology, genetics, behavior, ecology and evolution, microbiology and pathology, interactions with humans, pesticides and pest management, arthropods, and notable biographies.
Kline Science Library (non-circulating) QL462.3 E47 2004

A Dictionary of Zoology
The 2nd edition of this dictionary, edited by Michael Allaby, was published in 1999 by Oxford University Press.
Kline Science Library Reference QL9 C66X 1999
An online edition is also available A Dictionary of Zoology. Corrections were made in 2003.

Encyclopedia of Evolution
Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 volumes
All sorts of articles are found in this work, with covered topics among the 370 signed entries including subject-based as well as biographical, historical, and overview essays. There is much to commend this source, although the jump from the Topical Outline of Articles to the corresponding alphabetically-arranged articles is not obvious in some cases. Advisors include Sarah B. Hrdy, Richard Leakey, John Maynard Smith, and Edward O. Wilson and contributions by Yale faculty members.
Kline Science Library Reference QH360.2 +E53 2002 LC
An online edition is also available Encyclopedia of Evolution.

Animal: the definitive visual guide to the world's wildlife
DK Publishing, Inc., 2001
On the new side, a one-volume encyclopedia of the animal kingdom, replete with color photographs of many of the 2000 species featured, invertebrates to vertebrates, common and rare. Entries include distribution maps, habitat information, and interesting facts. Written by specialists in zoology, biology and nature.
Kline Science Library Reference QL45.2 +A56 2001 LC

Encyclopedia of the World's Zoos
Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001
A somewhat new 3-volume set with signed articles generally a few pages in length, explaining many topics related to zoos around the world, organizations and persons of note, and issues of interest to all in this field. Many of the articles end with a list for further reading, often citing publications not well known. Note: a historical related title has recently been added. See Zoo: a history of zoological gardens in the West, Reaktion, 2002. Kline Science Library (non-circulating) QL76 B3713 2002 (LC); copy at Sterling Memorial Library has not been cataloged at this time.
Kline Science Library Reference QL76 +E53 2001.

Turtles & Tortoises of the World
Blandford Press, 1998
A source with many photos, a bibliography for further reading, and a number of distribution maps.
Kline Science Library Reference QL666 C5 A43X

The Encyclopedia of Mammals
Facts on File, Inc., 2001, 3 volumes
David W. MacDonald, (a professor in the Dept. of Zoology at University of Oxford) also credited with an earlier well-received mammal encyclopedia, edits this work. Reference works consulted are listed in the bibliography. The color illustrations and special feature articles (How Dolphins Keep in Touch, Social Life of Rabbits, Bushmeat Trade, for example) and somewhat more generalist tone distinguish this from Walker's Mammals of the World (see under I. Classic works, above).
Kline Science Library Reference QL703 +E53X 2001

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, Gale, 2nd edition, 2002-2004.
Many drawings have been added to this edition, in addition to some distribution maps and revisions to species accounts. Set consists of 17 volumes.
Kline Science Library Reference QL7 G7813X 2003(LC) +oversize

VI. Illustrations
[This section is in development.]
A useful way to identify books (within Yale libraries) with illustrations on a particular topic is through the keyword search type in Orbis, the library system's online catalog. Example search statements follow below:
keyword: conservation and (illus or ill)
keyword: (bird or birds or aves) and (illus or ill)
One source for images on the Web is Yahoo - Images [tab]

For sources on illustration or photographic technique or equipment:
A Researcher's Guide to Scientific and Medical Illustrations, 1990 By Mary Helen Briscoe. Springer Series in Contemporary Bioscience, Springer-Verlag, 1990.
Kline Science Library Reference R836 +B73 1990

Zoological Record database, see above in IV. Research Literature Indexes. 1978 to present and its earlier print volumes are located in Kline Science Library Abstracts, pointing users to literature. In particular, the print volumes in Section 1, for Comprehensive Zoology, provide a category for these references.

There are also reference books with pointers to illustrations in books.
Index to Illustrations of the Natural World
Index to Illustrations of Animals and Plants
Index to Illustrations of Living Things

VII. Field Guides
The Kline Reference Collection is home to a number of field guides including these from various publishers:
Simon amp& Schuster's Guide to Insects- QL473 A76 1981
National Audubon Society Field Guide to Fishes, North America, revised edition- QL625 G56X 2002
Peterson Field Guides Reptiles and Amphibians eastern/central North America- QL651 C65 1998
Eyewitness Handbooks Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises, the visual guide to all the world's cetaceans- QL737 C4 C28X 1995
Eyewitness Handbooks Birds' Eggs, the visual guide to the eggs of over 500 bird species from around the world, QL675 W32X 1994
Mammal Tracks amp& Sign, a guide to North American Species, from Stackpole Books, QL725N7 E43X 2003
In the stacks are other fields guides. One is:
Sierra Club Handbook of Seals and Sirenians, QL737 P6 R44X 1992

VIII. Identification Aids or Keys
There are some classic sources for this. For a start, see Taxonomy and Classification Information Resources Guide

IX. Names, Taxonomy, Systematics, or Classification Resources
Index Animalium by Charles Davies Sherborn.
Covers animal names 1758-1850. In 1902, the first part was published, with animal genus and species name listings beginning with published literature from 1758 and including both fossil and living animals. The second part, 8 volumes, was published in 1922 and covers the literature of named animals from 1801 to 1850. Author Sherborn includes a nice bibliography of sources in the first volume of each part. In pre-publication days, this work was referred to as Index Generum et Specierum Animalium.
Kline Science Library Reference QL354 S4

Nomenclator Zoologicus: a list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus 1758 to the end of 1935 by Sheffield Airey Neave.
This set of four volumes plus three supplements began publication in 1939 by the Zoological Society of London. Provided are original name references (genus and subgenus) to published or privately printed literature of zoology, 1758-1965.
Kline Science Library Reference QL354 N65

Nomenclator Animalium Generum et Subgenerum by F.E. Schulze and W. Kukenthal.
A work with lengthy bibliography at the start. Published 1926-1956, in Berlin. Use in consultation with other sources.
Kline Science Library Reference QL354 +N6

International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN)
The Code, now in its 4th edition, is the set of rules for naming and registering names of organisms, as adopted by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature and passed by the International Union of Biological Sciences. The previous edition was published in 1985 and the first in the early 1960s. The content of the latest edition supercedes that of the previous editions. Text is in both English and French. Includes a code of ethics and glossary. Some sections can be found online.
Kline Science Library Reference QL353 I5 1999